Windows 10: How to identify contents of partitions

My single ssd has the partitions shown in the attached file. This notebook was converted to win 10 from 8.1. I want to merge C: and D: into one volume. However to do that it appears that I need to have them adjacent. I tried to move the two offending small partitions but can't. Better yet I would feel better about just deleting them . Is there a way to tell what is in them? I don't care about recovering to win 8.1. Any suggestions??

Kentm

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How to identify and delete superfluous recovery partitions?

Thank you for completely missing the point of my question;

"The issue is to dual boot Windows 10 with Linux"

No it isn't the issue, the issue is how to identify the contents of the four recovery partitions so I can delete those which are not needed.

I have edited my original post to remove any reference to anything else, just leaving the question "How do I inspect the contents of recovery partitions?" remaining for the bots to find.

 

returning a HDD partition to the main (C) partition

I created a HDD partition and installed W10 Preview as part of the insider program. I upgraded to W10 and everything is working fine, so I now want to remove this partition and return the capacity to my main (C partition. I have deleted the contents
of the partition and it is now identified as "free space", but there doesn't appear to be a option to return the space to the main partition. Can someone explain how to accomplish?

 

Instead of using AOMEI Partition Assistance. Use: Magic Partition Manager , Right click on the partition and select explore or Assign a letter for the partition then you can explore it with File Explorer.

The 2 partitions are Recovery partitions, they might have Windows Recovery & factory diagnostic tools, they are small so I don't think they contain factory recovery image.

In order to move these 2 partitions, you must have some unallocated space next to them to move to. If your D: Drive contains data, temporary move the data to C: drive or to an external drive then delete D: drive to make it unallocated, You can use either Windows Disk Management or Partition Manager to do this task.

IMO, Your Windows OS partition scheme is a mess. If you want to clean and re-align all partitions. Use this:
Solved Help With Partition Management - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks for the reply and the information. I definitely agree with your opinion. I do not have it fixed yet due to other issues that have cropped up. But I wanted to thank you for the help and I will definitely reply back here when I get it working.

 

One useful bit of information may be gotten by executing "reagentc /info" from an elevated command prompt. The output will show if you have an enabled WinRE partition and which one it is.

If the 4th and 5th are not your active WinRE partitions, they may be candidates to just delete and get out of the way.

 

I managed to get back to it quicker than I expected and I think I have it where I want it. The minitool did the job as did some tips from the other thread you pointed out. Here is a shot of the drive now.









Thanks to you and others, I may still have some hair left after all

Kentm

 

I had seen your idea in another thread and learned something new there. It did identify the right partition.
Thanks for your time.
KentM

 

Glad you got it all sorted, mostly with topgun's help, Kent! Looks good.